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APAT- Auditory Processing Abilities

By Deborah ross Swain EdD and Nancy Long PhD

Purpose: Provide a profile of a student's ability to process many types of auditory information

Age: 5 through to 12.11yrs

Admin: Individual

Time: 45 minutes

The Auditory Processing Abilities Test (APAT) uses tasks similar to classroom activities to provide a profile of a student's ability to process many types of auditory information. Difficulties with these skills may interfere with both academic and social success. APAT is intended to be one part of a collaborative assessment. It is designed to be used by speech & language therapists, audiologists, educational psychologists and other assessment professionals.

APAT provides a comprehensive assessment of specific skills that impact the development and use of the spoken and written language: phonemic skills, auditory memory (for words, digits, sentences and content information), processing of semantic relationships and complex sentences, following directions and comprehension of the details and main ideas in passages.